An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.